Save the Last Word for Me - The Teacher Toolkit
Save the Last Word for Me - The Teacher Toolkit is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- \ For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.
- Pass out index cards or slips of paper to each student, one card for each quote they have found. On one side of the card, ask students to write down the statements from the text. On the other side, instruct them to write any comments or feelings about their statements.
- For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.
- Read Assign a section of text and ask students to find three to five quotes from the text that they think are particularly interesting.
- The quotes may be something they agree or disagree with, something they find interesting, something they didn’t know, something they would like to tell someone about, etc.
- Write Pass out index cards or slips of paper to each student, one card for each quote they have found.
- On one side of the card, ask students to write down the statements from the text.
- On the other side, instruct them to write any comments or feelings about their statements.
- Group and Share Divide the class into groups of 3-5 students.
- All students in the group are allowed to share one of their quote cards.
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\ For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.
Pass out index cards or slips of paper to each student, one card for each quote they have found. On one side of the card, ask students to write down the statements from the text. On the other side, instruct them to write any comments or feelings about their statements.
For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.
Read Assign a section of text and ask students to find three to five quotes from the text that they think are particularly interesting.
The quotes may be something they agree or disagree with, something they find interesting, something they didn’t know, something they would like to tell someone about, etc.
Write Pass out index cards or slips of paper to each student, one card for each quote they have found.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Save the Last Word for Me - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: \ For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.; Pass out index cards or slips of paper to each student, one card for each quote they have found. On one side of the card, ask students to write down the statements from the text. On the other side, instruct them to write any comments or feelings about their statements.; For elementary students, only have them prepare one quote.; Read Assign a section of text and ask students to find three to five quotes from the text that they think are particularly interesting.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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